The bluebonnets have bloomed, the heat has arrived, soon the yellow buses will be garaged until fall. Come out and help us celebrate the end of the school year in the dorkiest of fashions. This month we will be meeting on Monday May the 21st at the Yellow Jacket Social Club (1704 East 5th St, Austin, TX 78702). We are moving the time back a bit, to make sure the day’s heat has a chance to dissipate and to make sure we have enough inky darkness for projector-ing. We have a few great presentations lined up, but could fit in another one or two – if you have something you’d like to show off, please get in touch with us at dorkbotaustin@dorkbot.org. We hope to see you all on the 21st!

Dorkbot36
Yellow Jacket Social Club
May 21, 2012
8p to 10p
1704 East 5th St, Austin, TX 78702

Finally we can announce our exciting new joint venture as we join forces with our good friends at the ATX Hackerspace to help put together SXSW Create, a Voltron-style all-day event of general awesomeness!

Next Tuesday, March 13th, we will be taking over Palm Park, located at 750 E 3rd Street, just East of the Austin Convention Center, from 11:00am to 6:00pm. Official info here: http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP992393.

First, let’s tear the duct tape off the bad news – this is an official SXSW event, intended for badge holders only This isn’t ideal, but don’t forget about our event with AMODA this Saturday night (http://amoda.org/showcase/showcase.php?EventID=93), which is certainly open to the public

(Also, mums the word, but the rumor has it that unlike some summers, which can be fairly Dork-less, this summer is shaping up to be quite Dork-tastic indeed. More details as they become available.)

Now for the good news:

Free beer!
Tons of our outstanding Dorkbot presenters giving updated presentations of their latest work!
A hacker village full of excellent work by the ATX Hackerspace!
A closing performance by our favorite hacker rock stars, Ghost Ghost!

We look forward to seeing you there!

SXSW is upon us! Batten down the hatches and prepare for the influx of nerds and dorks and geeks from the four corners of the map. Dorkbot is trying something new this year, instead of one big event we are collaborating with local groups to put on two separate events. The first will be the AMODA Laptop Battle at the Mohawk next Saturday. This event is free to SXSW Interactive badgeholders, $5 for AMODA members and open to the public for $10. This party is always pretty great, and we hope the addition of some of our loyal Dorkbot presenters will really take it over the top. More details on our second event soon!

The basic details are below, and full information is available at http://amoda.org/showcase/showcase.php?EventID=93.

Saturday, March 10th, 2012
Mohawk
(10th & Red River)
8pm-2am
$10 general;
$5 for members
Free with SXSW Interactive badge
18 and up

PLEASE NOTE: We strongly recommend arriving on time for this event. Due to sound ordinance, the Laptop Battle is scheduled between 10pm and midnight. Also, we are expecting a large number of SXSW badge holders and may reach capacity.

Dorks and Dorkettes!

The time is upon us, once again! Join us on Monday, January 30th at the ATX Hackerspace from 7-10pm as we celebrate a new year of general dorkiness, and ask the question, “Do Robots Dream of Arduino Sheep?” This will be our last meeting before SXSW, so if you want to show off a new creation, polish up a presentation, or show off a work in progress, please let us know!

Dorkbot33@ATX Hackerspace
Monday, January 30th
7p to 10p
1601 Rutherford Lane, A200, Austin TX 78754

We hope to see everyone on the 30th!

I’m going to spread the rumor now:
Dorkbot 33! Monday, January 30 from 7-10pm!
Location TBD.
We need a few good presenters. Contact Dustin the Dorkbot Overlord if you’d like to present a project.
dorkbotaustin@dorkbot.org

Fellow Dorkbotters, the holidays are upon us! Come and celebrate the end of a great year in the Land of the Dorks at the 32nd Dorkbot Austin on Monday, December the 12th at 7p. We’ll be hosted by the newest Austin hackerspace, Make ATX, located at the pump project art complex in SE Austin. We are currently putting together our lineup of presenters for the evening, if you have something you would like to show off, please get in touch with us at dorkbotaustin@dorkbot.org.

• Dorkbot32@MakeATX
• December 12th
• 7p – 10p
• 1109 Shady Lane
• Austin, TX 78721

And then! If you aren’t completely partied out, join your Dorkbot Overlords the following evening as we mix and mingle with the Austin web community at the Austin Web Bash! Hosted by the hottest web and tech groups around town with a sizable bar tab being picked up by some very generous local companies, it will be the dorkiest place to be on December 13th. The event is happening at Buffalo Billiards at 6th and Brazos, from 7p – 9p. Admission will cost you one canned food item, benefiting the Capital Area Food Bank. Full details available at http://www.refreshaustin.org/bash/, and you can RSVP on the Facebook event page so they have a rough idea of the headcount.

We hope to see everyone on the 12th, and we wish the happiest and dorkiest of holidays to those who can’t make it.

Dorkbotters! All Hallow’s Eve is nearly upon us! Come celebrate Halloween LED ingenuity with us next Monday, October 24th from 7-10pm
at the Austin Hackerspace (1601 Rutherford Lane, A200, Austin TX 78754).

We have on tap:

Chase Hammock and his Electric Surfboard
The MakeATX Crew
The Freedom Towers of OccupyX
Musical Stylings!
Treats and Libations!
Prizes for DIY costumes!
And much more!

As ever, we welcome your projects, big and small, please contact us at
dorkbotaustin@dorkbot.org if you have something you’d like to show
off.

TACC Visualization Lab on UT Campus, with Parking

Fellow Dorkbotters! The long hot summer is coming to a close and soon it will be safe to venture outside of our climate controlled homes for extended periods of time! As such, it is time for us to get together and show off our summer projects! This event will be a bit special, as we have been invited into the TACC Visualization Lab (http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/resources/visualization/#overview) on UT’s campus where we will get to see the completed Blackboard 2.0 first shown off on paper at Dorkbot27 back in January. We are still looking for a couple more presenters, so if you’ve got something you’ve been itching to show off, please get in touch with us at dorkbotaustin@dorkbot.org. Since we will be inside a high-end visualization lab, it is probably best to leave any projects involving flame or slime for another meeting, but any other types of projects would be welcomed.

Dorkbot 30
Monday, September 26, 2011
7-10pm
TACC Visualization Lab on UT Campus

Dorkbot is, as always, a FREE event. Hope to see you there!

Come to Dorkbot 29 tonight from 7-10pm at ATX Hackerspace (1601 Rutherford Lane). Katie Kizziar will be showing off her Savonius Wind Turbine and Jeff Keyzer will be talking about his latest collaborative comic book effort called Soldering is Easy.

Thanks to the wonderful folks at ATX Hackerspace for hosting Dorkbot this month!

There will be beer. And Dorkbot t-shirts. See you there!

Dorkbot 29 will be held the third Monday in May at the ATX Hackerspace, 7-10pm. We’re looking for a few good presenters. Don’t know what to present? Check these suggestions or email us at dorkbotaustin@dorkbot.org. More details available as we make them up.